The sixth of August, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan by the US bomber B-29, named Enola Gay. Three days after, it bombed another Japanese city, Nagasaki. The world’s first Read More …
A 61-year-old man, Keith McAllister, wearing a 20 lbs (9 kg) chain locked to his neck, was pronounced dead a day after he was drawn-in by a Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine in Nissau Open MRI in Westbury, New York’s Long Read More …
Air India’s Boeing 787 dreamliner departing Ahmedabad Airport, India, for Gatwick Airport, London, crashed 32 seconds after takeoff on 12 June, 2025, killing 260 people. There were 241 people on board – 230 passengers, 12 crew – and 19 people Read More …
‘World’s oldest baby’ from an embryo frozen in storage tank for a little over 30 years has been born. The baby, named Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, was born on 26 July, 2025, in Ohio, USA to Lindsey and Tim Pierce. The Read More …
A US-based Nigerian, Owolabi Salis, travelled to sub-orbital space in Blue Origin’s NS-33 mission on 29 June, 2025, and made history as the first Nigerian in space. The mission took him and five others up to 105 kilometres into sub-orbital Read More …
The Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa, NEISA, 2025, has been held in Kigali, Rwanda. The summit, held to stimulate the adoption of peaceful nuclear energy in Africa, took place from June 30 to July 1, 2025. International Atomic Energy Read More …
The US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation into the implosion of Titan submersible, owned by Oceangate Expeditions, taking five tourists to see the shipwreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean, has released its final report. The report Read More …
Nigeria reiterated its position in support of a comprehensive nuclear test ban on 7 July, 2025, when Vice President Kashim Shettima received the Executive Secretary of Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organisation, CTBTO, Dr Robert Floyd, in Abuja. Vice President Shettima Read More …
The orbit of the Earth around the Sun is elliptical, not circular, in shape. If it were circular and the Sun is at the centre, the distance from the Earth to the Sun will never change. But, it is elliptical Read More …
Ax-4, Axiom’s fourth crewed flight to the International Space Station, ISS, was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on June 25, 2025. It was earlier scheduled for June 11, but a liquid oxygen leak in the booster delayed the Read More …
